The Grower is a small ‘vehicle’ that moves around the sides of a room, hugging the walls responding to carbon dioxide levels in the air by actually drawing lines of varying height on the walls. The Grower is used in public exhibition spaces, so the number of people in the exhibit have an immediate effect on the CO2 sensor–the more people, the more C02, the higher the lines drawn. At the end of the trip around the room, the height of the ‘grass-like’ drawings directly relates to the human activity in the space. The designer Sabrina Raaf, a new media artist and teacher at the Columbia College, Chicago, says “This piece makes visible how art institutions depend on their visitors to make them a ‘healthy’ space for new art to evolve, and flourish within. It’s not only an interesting project from the visual side, but exposes a deeper issue about peoples support of the arts.

Silent Revolution has a nice selection of cleanly designed bags. As they put it, it’s “their effort to create futuristic and minimal bags reflective of the digital age in which we live”. Silent Revolution was started by Andrea Toyias, a self taught designer in LA. Some of her inspiration comes from minimalist architecture and design, and the clean lines in her bags clearly show this. She also said one of her biggest inspirations, not so much design wise, but ethos-wise, is Radiohead. She says (like many of us have said), when Kid A came out, it changed her life. The use of sound to create such distinct textures and rhythms inspired her, and she tries to sort of “translate” that into her designs. Check the bags out, she has everything from record bags to girlie clutches.